Lipkea is a genus of stalked jellyfish. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Lipkeidae. Lipkea species lack tentacles at the end of their bell.[2]
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| A Lipkea specimen from South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Staurozoa |
| Order: | Stauromedusae |
| Suborder: | Myostaurida |
| Family: | Lipkeidae Vogt, 1887[1] |
| Genus: | Lipkea Vogt, 1886 |
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Genera and Species edit
According to the World Register of Marine Species, there are only three described species in this family and genus:[3]
- Lipkea ruspoliana Vogt, 1886[4]
- Lipkea stephensoni Carlgren, 1933
- Lipkea sturdzi (Antipa, 1893)[5]
Distribution edit
According to the World Register of Marine Species[6] L. stephensoni is the only species known from the waters off the coast of South Africa. The other Lipkea species (Lipkea ruspoliana and Lipkea sturdzi) are found in the mediterranean sea. It is likely that there are undescribed specimens of Lipkea. For instance the images in the gallery below show Lipkea with dense nematocyst clusters (white spots) distributed throughout the oral surface, which are not characteristic of previous descriptions for the three described Lipkea.[4][5]
Gallery edit
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A Lipkea specimen with dense nematocyst clusters -
A cluster of Lipkea
References edit
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipkeidae Vogt, 1887". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ Miranda, Lucília S.; Hirano, Yayoi M.; Mills, Claudia E.; Falconer, Audrey; Fenwick, David; Marques, Antonio C.; Collins, Allen G. (2016). "Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)". PeerJ. 4: e1951. doi:10.7717/peerj.1951. PMC 4860332. PMID 27168970.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipkea Vogt, 1886". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ a b Pisani, Valérie; Otero-Ferrer, Francisco; Lotto, Séverine; Maurel, Philippe; Goy, Jacqueline (2007). "LIPKEA RUSPOLIANA VOGT, 1887, (STAUROMEDUSA, SCYPHOZOA, CNIDARIA) DANS LES AQUARIUMS DU MUSÉE OCÉANOGRAPHIQUE DE MONACO" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Information system on scyphozoa, cubozoa, and staurozoa".
- ^ "World Register of Marine Species - Lipkea". Retrieved 2019-08-19.
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